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    The Boyer-Moore algorithm is considered the most efficient string-matching algorithm for applications like text editors. It works faster than other algorithms when the alphabet is moderately sized and the pattern is relatively long. The algorithm scans the pattern characters from right to left, and if a mismatch is found between the text and pattern characters, it significantly shifts the pattern relative to the text to avoid needless comparisons.

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    The Boyer-Moore algorithm is considered the most efficient string-matching algorithm for applications like text editors. It works faster than other algorithms when the alphabet is moderately sized and the pattern is relatively long. The algorithm scans the pattern characters from right to left, and if a mismatch is found between the text and pattern characters, it significantly shifts the pattern relative to the text to avoid needless comparisons.

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    The Boyer-Moore algorithm is considered the most efficient string-matching algorithm for applications like text editors. It works faster than other algorithms when the alphabet is moderately sized and the pattern is relatively long. The algorithm scans the pattern characters from right to left, and if a mismatch is found between the text and pattern characters, it significantly shifts the pattern relative to the text to avoid needless comparisons.

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    The Boyer-Moore algorithm is considered the most efficient string-matching algorithm for applications like text editors. It works faster than other algorithms when the alphabet is moderately sized and the pattern is relatively long. The algorithm scans the pattern characters from right to left, and if a mismatch is found between the text and pattern characters, it significantly shifts the pattern relative to the text to avoid needless comparisons.

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    BOYER-MOORE ALGORITHM The Boyer-Moore algorithm is consider the most efficient string-matching algorithm in usual applications, for example,

    in text editors and commands substitutions. The reason is that it woks the fastest when the alphabet is moderately sized and the pattern is relatively long. The algorithm scans the characters of the pattern from right to left beginning with the rightmost character. During the testing of a possible placement of pattern P against textT, a mismatch of text character T[i] = c with the corresponding pattern character P[j] is handled as follows: If c is not contained anywhere in P, then shift the pattern Pcompletely past T[i]. Otherwise, shift P until an occurrence of character c in P gets aligned with T[i]. This technique likely to avoid lots of needless comparisons by significantly shifting pattern relative to text.

    BOYER_MOORE_MATCHER (T, P) Input: Text with n characters and Pattern with m characters Output: Index of the first substring of T matching P 1. Compute function last 2. i m-1 3. j m-1 4. Repeat 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. else If P[j] = T[i] then if j=0 then return i else i i -1 j j -1 // we have a match

    12. 13. 14. 15.

    i i + m - Min(j, 1 + last[T[i]]) j m -1 until i > n -1 Return "no match"

    For example consider

    T: P:

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b a c a a b a c c a b a c a b 0 1 2 3 4 5

    last(a) is the index of the last (rightmost) occurrence of 'a' in P, which is 4. last(c) is the index of the last occurrence of c in P, which is 3
    'd' does not exist in the pattern there we have last

    (d) = -1.

    c a last(c) 4

    c 3

    d -1

    Now, for 'b' notice

    T: a b a c a a b a c c P: a b a c a b
    Therefore, last(b) is the index of last occurrence of b in P, which is 5 The complete last(c) function

    last(c) 4

    -1

    Analysis

    The computation of the last function takes O(m+||) time and actual search takes O(mn) time. Therefore the worst case running time of Boyer-Moore algorithm isO(nm + ||). Implies that the worst-case running time is quadratic, in case of n = m, the same as the nave algorithm.

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